The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 292
upon as theleader of the Romantic School. Theword Romanticism is a somewhatvague term; the movement to whichit is applied was, above all, a protestagainst the tyranny of Greece andRome, a vindication of the art of theMiddle Ages and of modern times asagainst the unjust contempt with whichit was… … FIG. 528.—D.ANTE S BOAT.DELACROI.X. (The Louvre.) painted as a pupil of Gericault, Rubens,and Paul Veronese, with a somewhatdefective mastery of drawing, but witha feverish energy of life and expression,a deep and poetic sense of colour. Hisbold, ample technique thrust aside thesmooth timidities of…
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